Type setting and distributing machine.



i PATENTED NOV. 6, 1906.

A. G. BAKER.

APPLIGATION FILED mac. 9. 1905.

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ARTHUR G. BAKER, vOF ALBION. MICHIGAN, ASSIGXOR OF OXF-HALF TO HERBERTS. REYNOLDS, FRANK W. RANSOM, FRED C. RANSOL I, AND LOUIS F/MANN, OFJACKSON, MICHIGAN.

TYPE SETTING AND DISTRIBUTING MACHINE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 6, 1906.

Application filed December 9, 1905. Serial No.- 291,093-

citizen of the United States, and a resident of'.

Albion, in the county of Calhoun and State of Michigan, have invented anew and Improved Type Setting and Distributing Machine, of which thefollowing is a full, clear, and exactdescription. The invention relatesto a machine for setting individual type under the. control of akeyboard for automatically distributing the type into variouscompartments or cases rovided therefor, the machine being'capab e ofperforming the operations of setting and-distribluting eithersimultaneously or independent y. 1

According to the embodiment of the invention here illustrated .theapparatus comprises a series of type-containing tubes or compart-.

ments, each having a former configuration characteristic of the typewhich it is adapted to contain. Above the type-compartment is arranged adistributer, which has a number of compartments in which the type areindis- 2 5 \criminately placed and which is arranged to travel over thetop of the type-containing compartments, so that when a certain typereaches the position opposite its compartment the type falls from thedistributer into said compartments. compartments are arranged thedevices actuated throu h the keyboard for selecting and releasing tiletype and also the devices for assembling the released type inproperposition in thegalley.

The invention resides in certain special features of construction andcombination of parts, which will be fully set forth hereinafter andparticularly pointed out in the claims.

. Reference is to behad to the accompanying drawings, which illustrateas an example the preferred embodiment of my invention, in whichdrawings-e Figure 1 is a front elevation of the invention, the samebeing illustrated and broken away in order to show .the whole of theapparatus in one view. Fig. 2 is a vertical section on the line 2 2 ofFig. 1. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section on the line 3 3 of Fig. 2. Fig. 4is a horizontal section on the line 4 4 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is ahorizontal section on the line At the base of the ,type- 5 5 of 2 Fig.6-is a detail of the pawland-ratchet devices for moving the distributerback and forth over the type-receiving .com partments, and Fig. 7 is adetail view showin the device for assembling the type in the gadley. I

i The base 10 of theapparatus is in the form of a box containing thekeyboard mechanism 11. On said base is erected a vertically-extendingcasing 12, having, as shown best in Fig. 4, a number oftype-compartments 14.

These type compartments are interiorly ribbed, as shown, so that thenotches in the type as the type are moved over theLcompartments willregister with the ribs in the compartments. At its bottom the casin '12has a wall 15 which is located slightly bdlow the lower end of thecasing and in which the type rest, the t e being indicated at 0: in tdrawings. he bottom wall 1 5 is so arranged that the t e have a freepassage horizontally of the casing. The type pass from-the casing on aforwardly and downwardly inclinedtable 16, which has a diagonal wall 17extending across it to guide the type into the assembling-galley 18. Thetable has also curving guides 19, which control the movement of the typeand cause them to fall sidewise against the wall 17.. The diagonal wall17 also serves to render an approximately equal distance from all of thetype-compartments 14 to the assemblin -galley 18, so'that the same orapproximate y the same time is required to move the typefrom the severalcompartments to the assembling-galley, thus insuring that the type willreach the galley in proper relative order.

In Fig. 7 the galley 18 and table 16 are shown, and the type areillustratedas' they slide from the table into the galley. The type a areadvanced along the galley by means of a push-rod 19, which is connectedto a strap 20, encircling an eccentric 21, the

shaft 22 of which is driven through a pulley 23 and belt 24, passingfrom the drivingul-- ley 25. This driving-pulley 25 is carrie on a shaft26, mounted in a bracket 27, located at one side of the machine, asillustrated in Figs. 1 and 3. Fig. 2 illustrates the pushrods 28 fordislod ing the type from the casing 12. These rods are arranged one foreach ranged, and the'distributer is arranged to move horizontallybetween the track-bars 31 over the topof the casing 12. Said carriagecomprises upper and lower clamp-bars 34 and 35, respectively extendinghorizontally,

and connected by bolts or screws 3601' equiv alent means. Theclamp-plates 34 and 35 hold between them a number of verticallyextendingplates 37, as shown in Fig. 5, which form the various compartments forthe type. These compartments are inter nal ribbed, as shown; but theseribs are r orm and are so arranged that any c0m partment in thedistributer-oarriage will receive any one of the type. Said ribs servetoreceive uniform notches in the type and to retain the type in trueposition in thes "com artmen'ts.

T e distributer, as shown best in Fig. 2, moves over the'top of thecasing, and the type will drop into the type-compartments of the casingwhenever the notches in one of the'type register with the ribs in thetypecompartments of the casing 12. In this way the type are distributedintothe casing, each compartment thereof receiving type of the samecharacter. The rear clampplate 35 is ratcheted at its upper edge, asshown, and with this ratcheted edge of the clamp-plate 35 a double pawl38 operates. Said. pawl is intermediately pivoted on a rocking arm 39,which is held in a bearing 40, attached to the rear track-bar 31. Thearm 39 is connected by a link 41 with a crank 42 on the shaft 26, sothat when said shaft is in operation a regular rocking movement isimparted to the arm. The double pawl 38 has two lips 43 projectingtherefrom, respectively, at opposite sides of the pivot of the arm, andthese lips are adapted to be engaged by detents 44, attached to thesliding clamp plate 35 of the distributer-carriage. The pawl38, as shownin Fig. 6, is enga ing the carriage to move the same in the directionindicated by the arrow in said view, and when the left-hand detent 44strikes the right-hand lip 43 it will reverse the awl, and the re larrocking movement 0 the arm 41 will t en cause the carriage to reverseits movement, which op in this manner the distributer is automaticallymoved over the tnJe-casing with a uniform stepb v-step movement.

In the operation of the machine the type are manually placedindiscriminately into the compartments of the distributer-carriage andthe shaft 26 is set in motion by means of a belt 45, (shown in Fig. 1,)or by any other desired device, This causes the distribute!- carriage tomove back and forth over the type-casing, and the type will be selectedand dropped into their corresponding compartments 14,'the superimposedpile of type rest- This distribution of the type will go onautomatically and without the operators atten tion. In order to assemblethe type, the operator strikes the desired keys and the type selectedare pushed out on thetable 16 by means of the push-bars 28. This type.will fall by gravity along the inclined table and enter the galley,where the line is steadily pushed forward by the continuous pusher orplunger 19.

Having thus described the preferred form of my invention, what I claimas new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

tributer having a rack and a' detent at each end of the rack, a swingingarm, means for operating the arm, and a reversible pawl carried by thearm and coacting with the rack and adapted to be alternately struck bythe detents, for the purpose specified.

' 2. The combination of a movable type-dis tributer comprising a rackand a detent at each end thereof, a swinging arm, means for operatingthe arm, and an intermediatelypivoted pawl adapted to coact at its endswith the rack and to be alternately struck by the detents, automaticallyto reverse the pawl.

3. In a type setting and distributing machine, the combination of abase, type-selecting mechanism therein, vertically-extending platesrising from the base, horizontally-extending bars" clamping said platestogether spaced apart from each other to form typecompartments, theupper bars forming a zontally on said track, the distributer comforclamping them together spaced apart from each other to formtype-compartments, a rack on said distributer, a swinging arm, a

acting with the rack, detents at each end of the rack adapted to strikethe pawl to reverse the same, and means for imparting regular movementto said arm.

4. In a type setting and distributing ma chine, the combination of abase, typeselect ing mechanism therein, vertically-extending ing on thebottom wall 15, as shown in Fig, 1.

1. The combination of a movable type-distrack, a distributer mounted tomove hori pawl, returning the parts, as shown in Fig. 6.

rising ve1tically-extending plates and means reversible pawl mounted onthe arm and coacting wit the'rack, detents at each end of 15- I the baseand inclining forward and downplates rising from the base,horizontally-e15 tending bars clamping said plates together spaced apartfrom each other to form typecom artments, the upper bars forming a traca distributer mounted to move hori-' zontally onsaid track, thedistributer comprising vertically-extending plates and means or clampingthem together spaced apart from each other to formtype-compartments, arack on said distributer, a swinging arm, a reversible awl mounted onthe arm and cothe rack adapted to strike the pawl to reverse the same,means for imparting regular movement to said arm, a table mounted 011Ward from. the lower type-compartments, on] red guides extending alongthe upper surface of said table to control the movementof spaced apartfrom -each other to form typecompartments, the upper bars forming atrack, a distributer mounted to move horizontally on said track, thedistributer comprising vertically-extending plates and means forclamping them together spaced apart from each other to formtype-compartments, a rack on said distributer, a swinging arm, areversible pawl mounted on the arm and coacting with the rack, detentsat each end of the rack adapted to strike the pawl to re.- verse thesame, means for imparting regular 1 movement to said arm, a table on thebase inclining downwardly and forwardly from the lowertype-comfpartments and adapted to receive the type om the selectingmechanism, a diagonal wall extendin along said] table from the upperpart'to t e opposite lower corner thereof, curving guides on top of thetable directing the t e from said lower corner of the table, a ga leyadapted to receive the" type from said lower corner, [a

push-rodadapted to advance the type in thegalley, and means forreciprocating the push-o rodL e 1 In testimony whereof I have signed myname to this specification in the/presence of two subscribingwitnesses.

4 ARTHUR G. K R.

Witnesses R. B. KENNEnY, Emu L. ,Havnn,

